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Car Bomb Targets Iraqi Justice Minister A suicide bomber has attacked a convoy carrying the Iraqi justice minister in Baghdad, killing four of his security guards....
Posted: Sat, Jul 17, 2004 9:08am PDT
Quraya tenders resignation to Arafat Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmad Quraya has told legislators that he has submitted his resignation to President Yasir Arafat....
Posted: Sat, Jul 17, 2004 9:03am PDT
It’s the Occupation, Stupid! One can say the same to both Israel and the U.S. when they complain of terrorism and a lack of security. It’s the occupation, stupid!...
Posted: Fri, Jul 16, 2004 11:28am PDT
Turning Reality Upside Down: Dershowitz, Israel's Wall and the Jim Crow Era Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz compared the International Court of Justice to the white courts of Mississippi during the Jim Crow era...Mr. Dershowitz has it backwards. He would like to place Israel above the law in the same way that the courts of Mississippi tried to place white citizens above the law who blatantly and wantonly violated the rights of African Americans...Israel is a Jewish democracy, not a liberal democratic society -- the distinction being that a liberal democracy is ...
Posted: Fri, Jul 16, 2004 10:30am PDT
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 7/16/04 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Spain, China, Germany, and Cuba....
Posted: Thu, Jul 15, 2004 5:30pm PDT
Marriott International, Inc. (NYSE: MAR) And Free Speech A contested anti-war billboard planned for Times Square was nixed by the hotel where it was to be placed because of its political content, according to a hotel spokeswoman....
Posted: Thu, Jul 15, 2004 3:14pm PDT
Ann Petter Update after Court Date Supreme Court Returns Case of Detained American Peace Activist to District Court
Judge to View Secret Evidence and Make Further Judgment on Case...
Posted: Thu, Jul 15, 2004 11:28am PDT
Alcohol shops targeted in Baghdad At least seven alcohol shops have been bombed or shot at in the Iraqi capital in the past two days, shop owners and witnesses have said....
Posted: Thu, Jul 15, 2004 8:27am PDT
Iraq to have new domestic intelligence body Iraq's interim prime minister has announced the formation of a new security body that he said would help put an end to attacks on US-led troops and Iraqi forces....
Posted: Thu, Jul 15, 2004 8:26am PDT
Rangel Arrested In Sudan Genocide Protest U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel
Washington, DC...
Posted: Thu, Jul 15, 2004 8:19am PDT
New policies on Cuba create backlash New regulations affecting Cuban Americans who go to Cuba to visit family there have backfired. The Bush administration is facing both divisions within the U.S. Cuban community and opposition in Congress....
Posted: Thu, Jul 15, 2004 8:15am PDT
U.S. Policies Blasted at AIDS Conference As the International AIDS Conference in Bangkok comes to a close the U.S. is facing sharp criticism for it's funding policies, the small size of its delegation at the conference, and a lack of action to make generic AIDS medications available. We speak with Rep. Barbara Lee, the only member of Congress to attend the conference and we go to Bangkok and South Africa to speak with AIDS activists on the ground....
Posted: Thu, Jul 15, 2004 8:12am PDT
Echoes of Vietnam: Soldier Fights Extradition in Canada We speak with U.S. Army conscientious objector Jeremy Hinzman who fled to Canada to avoid being deployed in Iraq. He is believed to be the first U.S. soldier to file for refugee status in Canada for refusing to fight in Iraq....
Posted: Thu, Jul 15, 2004 8:11am PDT
NATO forces in Afghanistan admit that alleged US vigilantes conned them Kabul: Three alleged American vigilantes tricked NATO peacekeepers into helping them on illegal raids in the Afghan capital by requesting they send explosives experts and bomb-sniffing dogs to check three buildings where the three had arrested suspects....
Posted: Thu, Jul 15, 2004 8:05am PDT
Senior Middle East Correspondent for BBC discusses medias' bias in favor of Israel In my judgment as a journalist and Middle East specialist, the broadcasters' language favours the occupying soldiers over the occupied Arabs, depicting the latter, essentially, as alien tribes threatening the survival of Israel, rather than vice versa. The struggle between Israel and the Palestinians is shown, most especially on mainstream bulletins, as a battle between two 'forces', possessed equally of right and wrong and responsibility. It is the tyranny of spurious equivalence.
That 3...
Posted: Wed, Jul 14, 2004 9:35pm PDT
The Butler report The intelligence: flawed
The dossier: dodgy
The 45-minute claim: wrong
Dr Brian Jones: vindicated
Iraq's link to al-Qa'ida: unproven
The public: misled
The case for war: exaggerated
And who was to blame? No one...
Posted: Wed, Jul 14, 2004 5:23pm PDT
French Police Arrest Woman For Hoax Anti-Semitic Attack Pascal Boniface, the director of the French Institute for International and Strategic Studies, said the extensive coverage the hoax had received in French media demonstrated a double-standard approach in dealing with racist attacks in the European country.
"At a time when anti-Semitism crimes soar, we also find another kind of racism targeting the younger generations of immigrants, which is poorly covered by media," Boniface told IslamOnline.net.
"More and more, French ci...
Posted: Wed, Jul 14, 2004 10:53am PDT
US Hiding Detainees In Secret Locations: ICRC CAIRO, July 15 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – The International Committee of the Red Cross said hundreds of terror suspects captured by the US have never turned up in detention centers, fearing Washington is hiding them in secret locations worldwide....
Posted: Wed, Jul 14, 2004 10:50am PDT
The Selective Justice of America And Its Allies THE response of Israel and its chief ally - the United States - to last week's ruling of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) was very predictable. True to form, Israel's hawkish Prime Minister Ariel Sharon boasted that his country would continue building the West Bank separation barrier despite the ICJ's ruling that the wall is illegal and must be brought down....
Posted: Wed, Jul 14, 2004 10:35am PDT
UNRWA: Israelis fired on food convoy An UNRWA convoy delivering food to a besieged Palestinian town has come under Israeli fire in the occupied Gaza Strip, according to UN officials....
Posted: Wed, Jul 14, 2004 9:56am PDT
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